Toptal is a fully remote talent marketplace that connects companies with freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers it claims represent the top 3% of applicants. Founded in 2010 and famously bootstrapped after a single seed round, Toptal built a profitable, distributed business around one promise: skip the resume pile and hire pre-vetted, elite talent in days rather than months.
DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform designed for developers, startups, and SMBs, offering simple, predictable pricing and powerful infrastructure from virtual machines to high-performance GPU instances. Known for its community-first approach and Hacktoberfest, it has grown into a $9.4B public company competing with hyperscalers by focusing on usability and AI democratization.